ITAIA1 - AI Evolution

Question 1

What was the name of the first AI program developed by Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon?

Accepted Answer

General Problem Solver (GPS)

Question 2

Which concept did George Boole contribute to that is fundamental to AI?

Accepted Answer

Boolean algebra

Question 3

What term describes the period of reduced funding and interest in AI research during the 1970s and 1980s?

Accepted Answer

AI Winter

Question 4

Who is considered the "father of artificial intelligence?

Accepted Answer

John McCarthy

Question 5

What is one major ethical concern related to the development of AI?

Accepted Answer

Bias in AI systems

Question 6

Who are the key figures associated with breakthroughs in deep learning?

Accepted Answer

Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio

Question 7

What is an example of an expert system developed in the 1970s?

Accepted Answer

MYCIN

Question 8

In what year was the term "Artificial Intelligence" coined at the Dartmouth Conference?

Accepted Answer

1956

Question 9

What was a significant achievement of Google's DeepMind in 2016?

Accepted Answer

Defeating Lee Sedol in Go

Question 10

What is the name of the deep learning algorithm that led to significant advances in image recognition?

Accepted Answer

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)

Question 11

Which AI system defeated Garry Kasparov in chess in 1997?

Accepted Answer

Deep Blue

Question 12

Which area of AI research focuses on making AI systems understandable and transparent?

Accepted Answer

Explainable AI (XAI)

Question 13

What is a current trend in AI research aimed at improving human-AI interaction?

Accepted Answer

Enhancing explainability and interpretability

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